News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: National Park Service. Homestead National Monument of America. 8523 W. State Hwy 4. Beatrice, NE 68310. 402-223-3514 phone. 402-228-4231 fax. www.nps.gov/home. National Park Service News Release. - April 4, 2017. Susan Cook 402-223-3514. Fiddle Festival Returns to. Homestead National Monument of America. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following a report from Bloomberg BNA that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt ignored analysis from EPA staff estimating that legislation being considered by Congress would cost taxpayers $250 million per year and instead reported to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the costs would be minimal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Sacramento, Calif., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in drug-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies related to the distribution of more than $6.6 million of synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2, at Callaway County, Mo., businesses.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Watanabe: According to news reports, a medical device called a closed-channel duodenoscope manufactured by your company was recently linked to an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant infections that sickened at least five patients, one of whom died. This tragic incident is particularly alarming...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 4, 2017, Fraticelli Trucking Company Inc. entered a guilty plea to one count of illegally transporting certain highly radioactive material in violation of Title 49, United States Code, Sections 5105(d), 5124(a) and (c), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: With the arrival of spring and warmer temperatures, it is the perfect time of year to visit Denali National Park and Preserve and join us as we celebrate National Park Week April 15-23.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Connie Apostelos, also known as Connie Coleman, 51, formerly of Springboro, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to charges related to a $70 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded nearly 500 victims. Specifically, she pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after a group of Senators reintroduced legislation to override the preferences of the vast majority of Alaskans, prevent the creation of thousands of high-paying jobs, weaken the nation’s long-term energy security, and deprive Alaska of its best opportunity to pull itself out of recession.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, President Trump signed into law H.J. Res. 69 sponsored by Rep. Don Young (R-AK). The joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act overturns the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) rule on “Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska.".
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of continued improvement to health care cybersecurity today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Cybersecurity in the Heath Care Sector: Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to five years in prison for extortion and conducting an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Stephanie Knightly, 50, of South Paris, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to transferring a firearm to a felon.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following a report from Bloomberg BNA that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt ignored analysis from EPA staff estimating that legislation being considered by Congress would cost taxpayers $250 million per year and instead reported to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the costs would be minimal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Texas - In San Antonio, 54-year-old Muhammad Jaffer Ali was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his leadership role in a synthetic marijuana distribution scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Olathe man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $275,000 in merchandise while he was working for a store that catered to runners, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following news reports that senior EPA officials deliberately withheld information from the Congressional Budget Office in order to misrepresent the impacts and cost to taxpayers of pending legislation, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the need for greater coordination and leadership on cybersecurity issues across the health care industry, particularly challenges in public-private partnerships.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining a discussion draft of a Brownfields reauthorization bill that seeks to make several improvements to the Brownfields Program.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) action to approve grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands to aid ranchers devastated by ongoing wildfires started March 6, 2017, in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that four defendants, Tyshawn Simmons, 34, Franklin Brock, Jr., 23, Franklin Brock, Sr., 43, and Tina McDonald, 44, all of Rochester, NY, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa in connection with a long-term, violent drug distribution ring in the City of Rochester.
